Great Jama of Cairo

The Great Jama of Cairo is a large jama (a Muslim mosque/university) located in the city of Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. Built in 1184, the Great Jama of Cairo as the first great jama in the world.

History
The Ayyubid Caliphate of Sultan Salah ad-Din was forged through warfare with both the Muslim Fatimid Caliphate and the Christian crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, but Salah ad-Din was a very religious and chivalrous leader. Because of his devotion to the Islamic cause, he decided to build a monument to Allah in his capital city of Cairo. In a two-year project from 1182 to 1184, a great jama was constructed, the first of its kind seen on Earth. The Muslims did not worship symbols, for the prophet had decreed that to represent the divine with an icon or image was blasphemy in the extreme. However, nobody could really deny that the sight of the grand mosque served as a shining example of the might and wisdom of Islam.